Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 65 73
Rank change year-on-year -34 +8 -19
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,793 1,963 3,312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 4.12% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 4.53% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 991 2,468
10th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,201 43,352 86,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 91.03% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49,187 23,974 60,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.48% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -35 1,603 £75,000 +3.45% 631
UK excluding London -69 911 £65,000 -7.14% 390
Work from Home -22 808 £67,500 -3.57% 362
London -9 736 £85,000 +3.03% 317
North of England -40 344 £69,310 -3.73% 114
South East -13 250 £65,000 -7.14% 123
North West -54 190 £75,000 +7.14% 66
South West -73 95 £52,500 -23.39% 58
Midlands -66 91 £65,000 -3.70% 49
North East +18 77 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Yorkshire -25 77 £63,750 -12.07% 30
West Midlands -48 64 £77,500 +10.71% 29
East of England -22 47 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Wales -20 41 £70,000 +34.62% 10
Scotland -65 28 £60,000 -23.87% 17
East Midlands -56 26 £64,500 +7.50% 20
Northern Ireland -35 17 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (1.78%) Confluence
2 25 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.89%) Apache
3 16 (0.89%) CMS
3 16 (0.89%) IIS
4 10 (0.56%) JBoss
5 9 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.33%) Camunda
7 6 (0.33%) nginx
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.28%) Drupal
9 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
10 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.17%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.33%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 961 (53.60%) AWS
2 790 (44.06%) Azure
3 327 (18.24%) GCP
4 265 (14.78%) Serverless
5 203 (11.32%) GitHub
6 180 (10.04%) SaaS
7 157 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.97%) Amazon S3
11 95 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 85 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 81 (4.52%) GitHub Copilot
14 76 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.63%) Azure AKS
17 59 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
18 51 (2.84%) PaaS
19 48 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.57%) Broadband
2 24 (1.34%) Network Security
3 13 (0.73%) DMARC
4 12 (0.67%) MQTT
5 11 (0.61%) DNS
6 9 (0.50%) Internet
7 8 (0.45%) AMQP
7 8 (0.45%) Firewall
7 8 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.45%) VPN
8 7 (0.39%) DHCP
9 6 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.33%) HTTP
9 6 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.28%) LTE
10 5 (0.28%) RFID
11 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (15.62%) MongoDB
2 207 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (11.15%) NoSQL
4 147 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
5 146 (8.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 117 (6.53%) MySQL
7 92 (5.13%) SQL Server
8 84 (4.68%) Relational Database
9 55 (3.07%) Redis
10 52 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.67%) Big Data
13 23 (1.28%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.67%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.61%) Db2
15 11 (0.61%) DTS
16 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 208 (11.60%) Git
2 167 (9.31%) GitLab
3 139 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 55 (3.07%) JIRA
6 49 (2.73%) JUnit
7 41 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.73%) Claude Code
8 31 (1.73%) Mockito
9 30 (1.67%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.51%) CircleCI
10 27 (1.51%) Maven
11 20 (1.12%) Selenium
12 17 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.84%) JMeter
13 15 (0.84%) Vite
14 13 (0.73%) Postman
15 12 (0.67%) REST Assured
16 11 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 10 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 451 (25.15%) Finance
2 316 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 176 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 158 (8.81%) Banking
5 106 (5.91%) Retail
6 102 (5.69%) Law
7 99 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 98 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (3.01%) Financial Institution
10 49 (2.73%) Back Office
11 31 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.56%) Legal
13 25 (1.39%) Marketing
13 25 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.95%) Advertising
16 16 (0.89%) Billing
16 16 (0.89%) Games
17 13 (0.73%) Front Office
18 12 (0.67%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 646 (36.03%) Developer
2 417 (23.26%) Senior
3 355 (19.80%) Software Engineer
4 265 (14.78%) Lead
5 248 (13.83%) Architect
6 182 (10.15%) .NET Developer
7 144 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 139 (7.75%) Java Developer
9 125 (6.97%) Java Engineer
9 125 (6.97%) Senior Developer
10 118 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 101 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
12 92 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 82 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
14 76 (4.24%) Software Developer
15 69 (3.85%) Lead Developer
16 63 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (2.84%) Lead Software Engineer
17 51 (2.84%) Senior Java Engineer
18 50 (2.79%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (26.05%) .NET
2 404 (22.53%) React
3 399 (22.25%) Node.js
4 294 (16.40%) Spring
5 274 (15.28%) Spring Boot
6 271 (15.11%) RESTful
7 240 (13.39%) REST
8 211 (11.77%) Kafka
9 206 (11.49%) ASP.NET
10 197 (10.99%) .NET Core
11 191 (10.65%) AngularJS
12 182 (10.15%) Vue
13 168 (9.37%) ASP.NET Core
14 99 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
15 93 (5.19%) .NET Framework
16 92 (5.13%) Blazor
17 89 (4.96%) HTML
18 83 (4.63%) CSS
19 82 (4.57%) gRPC
20 71 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 546 (30.45%) Cloud Native
2 306 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 90 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.51%) Over-the-Top Content
9 42 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.51%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
14 26 (1.45%) e-Learning
14 26 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
17 21 (1.17%) Mobile App
18 18 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.08%) Linux
2 46 (2.57%) Windows
3 20 (1.12%) Unix
4 12 (0.67%) CentOS
4 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.33%) Debian
5 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.22%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Android
7 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (50.92%) CI/CD
2 821 (45.79%) Agile
3 655 (36.53%) Software Engineering
4 652 (36.36%) DevOps
5 511 (28.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 423 (23.59%) Containerisation
7 417 (23.26%) Mentoring
8 375 (20.91%) Event-Driven
9 374 (20.86%) Test Automation
10 359 (20.02%) AI
11 347 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 338 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 309 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
14 255 (14.22%) Scrum
15 234 (13.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 229 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
17 222 (12.38%) TDD
18 203 (11.32%) Clean Code
18 203 (11.32%) Coaching
19 192 (10.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 590 (32.91%) Java
2 458 (25.54%) C#
3 454 (25.32%) SQL
4 444 (24.76%) Python
5 410 (22.87%) JavaScript
6 334 (18.63%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.64%) Go
8 49 (2.73%) Scala
9 43 (2.40%) C++
9 43 (2.40%) Ruby
10 42 (2.34%) Bash
10 42 (2.34%) PHP
11 26 (1.45%) PowerShell
12 25 (1.39%) Bicep
12 25 (1.39%) C
13 24 (1.34%) Rust
14 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.67%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.61%) Groovy
16 11 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (12.60%) Security Cleared
2 171 (9.54%) Degree
3 152 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 43 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 35 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.28%) CISSP
9 19 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.50%) PhD
14 8 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.45%) CISM
15 6 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.28%) GIAC
16 5 (0.28%) ISACA
16 5 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.03%) QA
2 63 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 39 (2.18%) GDPR
4 38 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.39%) WCAG
6 23 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 22 (1.23%) NIST
7 22 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.89%) NCSC
9 15 (0.84%) GRC
10 10 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.22%) SEPA
16 3 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.17%) IFRS
16 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 524 (29.22%) Docker
2 22 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.22%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 560 (31.23%) Kubernetes
2 341 (19.02%) Terraform
3 102 (5.69%) Ansible
4 96 (5.35%) Grafana
5 55 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.34%) Argo
7 19 (1.06%) Kibana
8 17 (0.95%) Puppet
9 13 (0.73%) Cilium
10 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.22%) Packer
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
13 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.17%) Rancher
14 2 (0.11%) Istio
14 2 (0.11%) MIIS
14 2 (0.11%) Nagios
14 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.056%) logstash
Vendors
1 272 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.18%) Google
3 58 (3.23%) Oracle
4 45 (2.51%) Typelevel
5 34 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 26 (1.45%) Dynatrace
6 26 (1.45%) Splunk
7 18 (1.00%) IBM
8 17 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.84%) Databricks
10 14 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.73%) Adobe
11 13 (0.73%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.67%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.56%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.56%) SAP
13 10 (0.56%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.45%) Cisco
14 8 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.39%) HubSpot